• Pocketful of Miracles (category Films directed by Frank Capra)
    comedy film starring Glenn Ford and Bette Davis, produced and directed by Frank Capra, filmed in Panavision. The screenplay by Hal Kanter and Harry Tugend...
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    1940s, she was cast in her most well-known role as Ruth Dakin Bailey in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In 1949, Patton retired from acting, and...
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    with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. "High Hopes", sung by Sinatra in the Frank Capra comedy, A Hole in the Head (1959), won the Academy Award for Best Original...
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  • Director's course at UCLA's Extension school. In 2006, he won the DGA's "Frank Capra Achievement Award", a career award given to assistant directors. In 1981...
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  • his brother Carmine, that he should have spoken to his caporegime Joseph Capra before opening the game. In 1984, Avellino and his brother Salvatore had...
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    and lasted until the early 1950s. Arthur had feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper, You Can't Take...
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    perhaps best-known as Mr. Potter's silent, wheelchair-pushing valet in Frank Capra's classic It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Hagney was also a guest star on...
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    supporting role in The Murder Man (1935) and had his breakthrough in Frank Capra's ensemble comedy You Can't Take It with You (1938). Stewart went on to...
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  • Covert, Erick Avari, and John Turturro. The film is a remake of the 1936 Frank Capra film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, which itself was based on the 1935 short...
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  • California Press, 1985). Carney, Raymond Francis, Junior, American Vision: The Films of Frank Capra, (Cambridge, London, New York and New Rochelle, New...
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  • Inc., and LVF Airport Service Inc. at JFK Airport. Manzo also owned Villa Capra, a restaurant in Cedarhurst, New York, where he conducted illegal activities...
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    in another for Columbia, The Power of the Press (1928), directed by Frank Capra. He went back to supporting roles for The Barker (1928) at First National...
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  • rousing ending that "leaves you with the sort of sappy happy feeling that Frank Capra and Preston Sturges used to provide". In the Los Angeles Times, Michael...
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    the script. However, despite studio resistance, they left to work on Frank Capra's Why We Fight series early in 1942. Howard Koch was assigned to the screenplay...
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    Hero Syndrome", 1977). He also appeared in the pilot episode of The Eddie Capra Mysteries (1978). Walker maintained a presence on episodic television in...
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    was the last in the case to plead guilty, his associates Daniel Capra and Michael Capra pled guilty earlier. He pleaded guilty to extortion after he attempted...
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    Thunder Rock (1942) Tunisian Victory (1944, documentary co-directed with Frank Capra) Fame Is the Spur (1947) The Guinea Pig (1948) High Treason (1951) Single-Handed...
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    educational science film The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, directed by Frank Capra for the acclaimed Bell Telephone Series in 1957. Carlson remained active...
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    among his favourite film makers. In a 1991 interview, he also cited Frank Capra, Fritz Lang, Yasujirō Ozu and even Jean-Luc Godard, "until the late '60s...
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  • Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985). Television appearances include The Eddie Capra Mysteries, Cop Rock, Days of Our Lives, Rockford Files, and Hill Street...
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    were published. Published by Capra Press, in collaboration with Yes! Press, it was the first volume of the "Yes! Capra" chapbook series and is 34 pages...
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    initially hesitant, but he accepted the role at Laurel's insistence. Frank Capra invited him to play a cameo role in Riding High with Bing Crosby in 1950...
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    made millions of dollars in bid-rigging. In early 2002, Luchese capo John Capra worked with Gambino acting boss Arnold Squitieri, acting underboss Anthony...
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  • reality series Chopped Canada. List of Chopped episodes List of Chopped Junior episodes List of Chopped Sweets episodes Chopped Canada episode guide at...
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    for sports and music. He sang for the Frank Murray Boys' Choir when he was 10 years old. Upon graduating from junior high school in 1950, he enrolled in...
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    When director Frank Capra and writer Robert Riskin adapted it for the screen in 1938, the film won the Best Picture Oscar and Capra won for Best Director...
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    Film Role Director Notes 1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (uncredited) (?) Frank Capra 1942 The Big Blockade Voice over (uncredited) Charles Frend 1942 The...
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  • an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? It's like Frank Capra territory on one hand, but I'll also cover the demons in his private...
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  • Christian Ford, Roger Soffer (screenplay); Shaquille O'Neal, Francis Capra, Ally Walker, James Acheson, John Costelloe, Marshall Manesh, Fawn Reed...
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    having her voice dubbed) opposite Bing Crosby in Riding High, directed by Frank Capra. Riding High was not a success and Fox ended her contract in 1950. Gray...
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